Kolaiti, P;
Wilson, D;
(2014)
Corpus Analysis and Lexical Pragmatics: An Overview.
International Review of Pragmatics
, 6
(2)
211 - 239.
10.1163/18773109-00602002.
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Abstract
Lexical pragmatics studies the processes by which lexically encoded meanings are modified in use; well-studied examples include lexical narrowing, approximation and metaphorical extension. Relevance theorists have been trying to develop a unitary account on which narrowing, approximation and metaphorical extension are all explained in the same way. While there have been several corpus-based studies of metaphor and a few of hyperbole or approximation, there has been no attempt so far to test the unitary account using corpus data. This paper reports the results of a corpus-based investigation of lexical-pragmatic processes, and discusses the theoretical issues and challenges it raises.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Corpus Analysis and Lexical Pragmatics: An Overview |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1163/18773109-00602002 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-00602002 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1453677 |
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